ABQ ARTWALK -- South Valley Studio Tour -- November 2025

Another ABQ ARTWALK in downtown Albuquerque happened on a beautiful warm Friday night, November 7th, 2025:

ABQ ARTWALK

November 2025

JULIANNA KIRWIN

JULIANNA KIRWIN had a solo show at the FUSION Artspace in Albuquerque:

Julianna Kirwin facing us

Julianna is on 7 billboards

during the month of November 2025

Julianna also heads the Herstory Collective.  Their most recent project was to wheat paste prints of woman around Albuquerque, and three of those portraits were wheat pasted on the FUSION building that housed her exhibition:

Three portraits from the Herstory collective

Printmaking with Purpose: Julianna Kirwin

AMY VENSEL

AMY VENSEL from Las Cruces, showed at the Scarab Design House:

Amy Vensel

at the Scarab Design House

JERRY WELLMAN

JERRY WELLMAN of Axle Contemporary in Santa Fe, showed at ACE Barbershop:

Jerry Wellman showed his monoprints

ACE HISTORY

The walls of ACE Barbershop are a kind of history of the art scene in Albuquerque:

ACE is still showing the Skinpop Collaboration

We had our first print show at ACE Barbershop in 2012:

July 6, 2012

Our first print show

was at ACE Barbershop in 2012

Later in 2016 we showed prints from 75 Grados of Mexico City at ACE Barbershop:

MexTaPoz -- 75 Grados hits Albuquerque

Mexican Prints from 75 Grados

exhibition at Ace Barbershop in 2016

SECRET GALLERY

The SECRET GALLERY runs the ABQ ARTWALK:

SECRET GALLERY

Augustine Romero was featured

at the Day of the Dead Altar

The altar at the Secret Gallery

John Paul Gutierrez

JESSE LITTLEBIRD

Jesse Littlebird was showing at Kukani Gallery:

 

Jesse Littlebird

OAXACA PRINTS

The Oaxaca print exhibition continued another month at the Mothership Alumni, and apparently there were some new prints up this month:

Eric Povs Posos

Damian Jimenez

Damian Jimenez

"Barrolocos"

Charles Montoya photo

of the young Oaxaca printmakers at the Barrokoo gallery

SOUTH VALLEY STUDIO TOUR

I visited Barbara Endicott's and Laurence Wellborn's studios during the Albuquerque South Valley Studio Tour on Sunday, November 9, 2025:

Barbara Endicott

I ran into Virgil Velasco at Barbara's studio,

and gave him the tessellation print

that featured his big red linocut

Barbara's figure drawings

Barbara's portrait drawings

from the Friday Night Faces group

Barbara's EXQUISITE TESSELLATION print

Barbara's two prints of women for the Herstory project:

Albuquerque's Favorite Women

Laurence Wellborn's studio bus

Not all was calm in the valley. There were lots of signs in the neighborhood protesting the South Valley Art Tour -- all done in the same red handwriting:

Last year (2024) there was also a protest again the South Valley Studio Tour in Albuquerque:

November 18, 2024

Manifesto against the Art Tour in 2024

The Resistance goes back even further...note this sign in the South Valley on the banks of the Rio Grande:

Pictures of Albuquerque -- January 2021

Real looking fake sign